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...important wage concessions. Nonetheless, some industry analysts figure that these agreements will only cut Japan's $1,500 edge by $200 or so. That cost of production difference will have to fall further before Detroit's sticker prices can come down and a strong, and lasting, sales pickup can start...
Even assuming the optimistic scenario and more consumer spending, the business pickup is not expected to be as strong as after other recessions. Said Eckstein: "It will be a limp recovery." Board mem bers expect the gross national product to increase 3.1% in 1983. The first year after the severe 1974-75 recession, the U.S. economy expanded...
...indeed. The boy who was last to be chosen for any pickup baseball team, who was labeled "the retard" by the boys in his phys.-ed. class, who was sickened by having to dissect a frog in junior high and ran outside to vomit with the others-"and the others were all girls"- found he could win friends and influence people with his movies. He enrolled in a Boy Scout photography program, where his success made him at 13 one of the youngest Eagle Scouts ever. ("If I hadn't been a Scout," Spielberg cheerfully admits today...
...gold-rush days, Colony's workers had thronged to Colorado in the past two years from all over the U.S. By the end of last week many of them were on the move again. Swiftly loading crates stuffed with trucks clothes and tools into their mud-streaked pickup trucks and vans, they headed in every direction...
...hillside was a few years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...